But how exactly is developer Reagent Games crafting this city-wide destruction? In the latest issue of Official Xbox Magazine, Crackdown creator Dave Jones explains it's all about using Xbox One's trump card - the cloud. "We're throwing so much physics around that, as soon as you start, the game has to grab extra computing power outside of [your] Xbox," Jones explains.

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